Visual Editor
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$ 135000 - 155000
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Job Description:
The Wall Street Journal is seeking a Visual Editor to direct the visual coverage of our daily and long-term stories. They will manage a team of graphics reporters to ensure that staff are pitching creating and collaborating on high-quality visual journalism and visual-led stories for our digital platforms.
The ideal candidate will actively play a broader leadership role in the department: facilitating special projects mentoring staff and supporting the Director of Graphics as required. This senior position provides an exciting opportunity to work with an award-winning department to drive ambitious innovative and analytical storytelling with graphics interactives and other storytelling experiments and formats.
This role will be based in our New York office and will report to the Director of Graphics.
To apply please submit a resume cover letter and examples of your work.
You will:
Prioritize assign and direct visual content on all platforms including mobile desktop and social.
Manage a team of visual specialists providing constructive feedback on projects and professional growth.
Work in close partnership with other visual business news strategy product and engineering leadership.
Maintain a balance of long- and short-term projects with a mix of breaking news enterprise and ambitious visuals.
Coordinate closely with photo editors and video editors on multimedia stories.
Flexibility to allow staff to work on projects outside of their core sections based on their skills and newsroom needs.
Keep stakeholders apprised of all projects by maintaining departmental project lists and attending relevant meetings to ensure all milestones and editorial requirements are met.
Create a portfolio of high-impact visual stories that are analytical clear and accurate.
Help direct and create new workflows and processes in a fast-paced global and networked newsroom.
Recommend and lead change where required to strengthen the team and the journalism.
Work closely with the Director on broader departmental and organizational projects.
Lead and inspire the department to perform at its very best.
You have:
At least seven years of experience leading a team of visual and interactive journalists or equivalent experience.
Excellent news judgment and an expansive understanding of contemporary design standards.
A creative vision and willingness to share and collaborate on new ideas.
Experience with people and performance management or equivalent experience.
Experience managing change creating new processes and workflows.
Prior experience in a newsroom with excellent news data and design judgment.
A good understanding and appreciation of business news.
Experience with data journalism and data visualization and associated tools such as Excel SQL R and Python.
Good knowledge of web development including HTML CSS and JavaScript.
Good knowledge of building stories for mobile devices.
Excellent organizational skills using Google tools and Slack.
Experience working in a highly collaborative environment.
Experience building consensus and motivating different personalities and teams.
The ability to work quickly and efficiently under tight deadlines.
The ability to train reporters and editors to learn new skills that will contribute to their visual storytelling.
The initiative to take on and learn new tasks in a fast-moving environment.
Excellent communication skills.
Business Area:
Dow Jones - News - WSJJob Category:
Editorial/JournalismUnion Status:
Non-Union rolePay Range: $135000 - $155000We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidates experience industry knowledge location technical and communication skills and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract engage and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary for bonus eligible roles targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.For benefits eligible roles in addition to cash compensation the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package with a variety of physical health retirement and savings caregiving emotional wellbeing transportation and other benefits including elective benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..Employment Type
Full-Time
